Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
Commercial Real Estate Professionals who work with Investors, Buyers and Sellers of Commercial Real Estate. We discuss todays opportunities, problems & solutions in Commercial Real Estate.
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Commercial Real Estate Career Success Skills with Allen Buchanan - CRE PN #516
08/14/2025
Commercial Real Estate Career Success Skills with Allen Buchanan - CRE PN #516
Today, my guest is Allen Buchanan. Allen Buchanan is an S, I, O, R, and is a nationally recognized commercial real estate broker, columnist, speaker and creator of the sequence success framework. He's also a principal at Lee and Associates in Orange County, California, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Allen Buchanan about building a successful career in commercial real estate.
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BIGGEST RISK with Allen Buchanan
08/12/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Allen Buchanan
J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you. Allen Buchanan, What is the BIGGEST RISK? Allen Buchanan Darrin, for me, the BIGGEST RISK is relevance. And I use this in a micro sense, in a macro sense. The micro sense is, I'm 68 years old, and so I realized that I'm on the back nine, maybe the last three holes of my career. And so maintaining relevance with those with whom I deal, first and foremost, family members, clients, friends, etc, there's then a relevance in terms of the commercial real estate profession. I know you've had guests on your podcast that specialize in artificial intelligence, and if you look at the ways in which artificial intelligence is chipping away at what all of us in the sales profession do, you'd have to realize that there's a greater risk that at some day, commercial real estate brokers become, you know, irrelevant. So to me, that's the biggest risk that we face, both on a micro and a macro level, going forward.
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Virtual Assistants Propel Real Estate Professionals Success with Bob Lachance - CRE PN #515
08/07/2025
Virtual Assistants Propel Real Estate Professionals Success with Bob Lachance - CRE PN #515
Today, my guest is Bob Lachance. Bob Lachance is the founder and CEO of , the leading virtual assistant staffing company for real estate investor professionals. Excuse me for real estate professionals, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Bob LaChance about virtual assistants for real estate professionals.
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BIGGEST RISK with Bob Lachance
08/05/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Bob Lachance
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Bob Lachance, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Bob Lachance Well, for my virtual I'll give you two answers. My virtual assistant company, it is AI, so stepping ahead of that, and in being aware of that and training our virtual assistants be to become experts on that, that now gives me the insurance I need to stay in business as a real estate professional, I would say, you know, if your niche is rehabbing properties or niches commercial, train yourself on another niche, just in case something happens, right? So, for instance, in the residential real estate world, wholesaling is starting to become more challenging in some states. So if you're just a wholesaler as an example, start buying and holding to offset those risks. Start learning how to rehab to offset so offset those risks. So it's really putting more tools in your tool belt and whatever industry you're in. So I would say that would be, that'd be something to do. And I started real estate 21 years ago, and where you start is never where you end, right? I mean, you could probably attest to that, Darrin, you probably didn't start in insurance, insurance brokerage and things like that. You've probably gone through a series of experiences for you to get where you are now.
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Geothermal Heating Efficient Cooling Commercial Real Estate with Bryan Roberts - CRE PN #514
07/31/2025
Geothermal Heating Efficient Cooling Commercial Real Estate with Bryan Roberts - CRE PN #514
Today, my guest is Brian Roberts. Brian Roberts is with Dandelion where he serves as director of business development, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Brian Roberts about high performance, Earth powered geothermal heating and cooling.
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BIGGEST RISK with Bryan Roberts
07/31/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Bryan Roberts
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Brian Roberts, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Bryan Roberts Yeah, of course, the biggest risk, one of the biggest risks, I would say, for geothermal HVAC systems is late integration into the project. If a developer brings us in after the mechanical engineering the MEP is finalized or or even well underway, we're. Often trying to retrofit a solution into a system that wasn't designed to support it. There can, at times, be a little bit of a knowledge gap. Many architects and engineers will default to legacy HVAC systems simply because that's what they're most familiar with. And we see some missed opportunities because geothermal wasn't on the table early enough. So I would say it's really important that we get involved in the conversation early. That's that's a huge risk for us to not be involved early enough. On the flip side, if, if I look at it from the developers perspective, those developers who don't go with geothermal, their risk is future obsolescence. You're looking with fossil fuel systems that may soon be out of code, that are unattractive to future buyers, or burden with expensive retrofit requirements and and on top of that, you're leaving major tax credits on the table that are available to offset the upfront costs and make it possible for you to enjoy lower operating costs over the long haul.
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Real Estate Investing with 30-Year Fixed Rate Loans with Adiel Gorel - CRE PN #513
07/24/2025
Real Estate Investing with 30-Year Fixed Rate Loans with Adiel Gorel - CRE PN #513
Today, my guest is Adiel Gorel. Adiel is one of the leading experts on real estate and real estate investment in the United States and around the world. He is the author of five books, including his Amazon bestseller, Remote Control, Retirement Riches. And in just a minute, we're going to going to speak with Adiel Gorel about The Miracle Real Estate investment, Sitting in Plain Sight.
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BIGGEST RISK with Adiel Gorel
07/22/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Adiel Gorel
J Darrin Gross Adiel Gorel, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Adiel Gorel With your permission, I'm going to riff the answer, not going to be one sentence, just a few sentences to me knowing what I know now, funnily enough, the biggest risk is doing nothing at all, because later in the future, you say, Oh, my God, I could have owned three houses. Okay, so doing nothing is a very big rate, but Okay, fine. Within the realm of actually doing stuff and buying rentals or buying property. To me, a big risk is buying junk and buying junk. It's easy to say, don't buy junk, but junk is very attractive. Why? Because people have a notion about cash flow, and typically, the worst the home, the worse the neighborhood, the worse the city on paper, the cash flow looks better. Life doesn't happen on paper. So the biggest risk is to buy junk. It's like in software, garbage, in garbage, out. I know people say, Well, we're gonna fix it. No, really is the was the fix up good? Okay, so to me, not buying new is a big risk, mitigating it. Buy new in good areas, but related to your sphere, I also consider it a risk to be under insured. You need to be well insured on your property and get the maximum liability insurance that your insurance agent can offer. Of course, we make it so that it all taken is taken care of for you. But I recommend never being, you know, under insured, because that's an opening for risk.
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Public Adjusting Insurance Claims with Andy Gurczak - CRE PN #512
07/17/2025
Public Adjusting Insurance Claims with Andy Gurczak - CRE PN #512
Today, my guest is Andy Gurczak. Andy is the founder of All City Adjusting, a licensed Public Adjusting firm with a focus on making sure the clients get what they truly deserve from their insurance claims. Ph: (708)655-4186
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BIGGEST RISK with Andy Gurczak
07/15/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Andy Gurczak
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Andy Gurczak, What is the BIGGEST RISK? Andy Gurczak Biggest Rsk? Cut me up. Cut me off guard, not you know what I'll say, not maintaining your home. I think a lot of people the biggest risk is people not maintaining their home, and then homes falling apart, having damage which they all expect the insurance to cover. And it's not, you know, singles falling off your window, caving in, you know, two by fours leading to the left, drywall peeling. Those are all prevented, like, those are all maintenance of your home. And so the biggest risk I I think, is, is just people then expecting the insurance company to be their warranty, their handyman and everything and and it be done for free, and you probably see it on your side too as an insurance broker. Ph: (708)655-4186
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Build to Rent Single Family Rentals with Richard Ross - CRE PN #511
07/10/2025
Build to Rent Single Family Rentals with Richard Ross - CRE PN #511
Today, my guest is Richard Ross. Richard is the CEO of Quinn Residences. Quinn Residences is a is a leading institutionally backed owner, operator and developer of dedicated Rental Communities in in the southeastern United States.
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BIGGEST RISK with Richard Ross
07/08/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Richard Ross
J Darrin Gross If you're willing, Richard Ross You're asking, what keeps me up at night is that? J Darrin Gross That's right. Richard gross, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Richard Ross So people in this business typically would say interest rates, and certainly the elevated level of rates has been a factor. My opinion on interest rates is, as long as they're stable, I can deal with them like I can price my product, if you will. What keeps me up at night today, and you sort of alluded to it, is regulation and legislation, particularly anti renter bias, and that's mostly local. I'm talking rent control. I'm talking prohibition against renting because somehow we are impeding people from buying homes. The facts don't bear that out. But you know, you can get a law passed that says you can only rent five homes and 100 home subdivision. Well, that's a problem for me. It's a problem for you, probably, as a owner of rental property. So that's, that's would be the biggest risk today is, is a sort of a myopic approach and an anti renter bias that a lot of local municipalities have.
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Multifamily Investing Pivots for 2025 with Vince Gethings - CRE PN #510
07/03/2025
Multifamily Investing Pivots for 2025 with Vince Gethings - CRE PN #510
Today, my guest is Vince Gethings. Vince is the co founder of and the owner of Wheelbarrow Profits Academy.
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BIGGEST RISK with Vince Gethings
07/01/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Vince Gethings
J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, Vince Gethings, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Vince Gethings What I've seen, it'd probably be over leverage. I know it's kind of the easy answer, but a lot of the issues that I've seen of people being forced their hand is forced to take action is because they're an over leveraged position and they don't have they don't have the working capital. They don't have the liquidity to kind of weather the storm. So they're being forced to take action where a lot of kind of more seasoned investors are sitting on their hands right now, and they can afford to do so, and they're not, they're not being forced to do, to buy or sell. So that, that is what I see right now. As far as the biggest risk of the people that you know we had, we had the survive to 25 mantra, all in the last two years. And that's the that's not working. So maybe it's survived for 26 527, but, um, but, and I think, I think that could have been a lot of that could have been prevented if just keeping keeping leverage in check. And, yeah, that's probably the, probably the biggest one. I can probably go half a dozen more, but that's one I'm going to go with.
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Delinquent Tax Investing with Brian Seidensticker - CRE PN #509
06/26/2025
Delinquent Tax Investing with Brian Seidensticker - CRE PN #509
Today, my guest is Brian Seidensticker. Brian Seidensticker, he founded , TSR in 2010 and in 2017 Brian partnered with software developer SDA solutions, a comprehensive workflow management system. And in 2020 Brian launched mount North Capital, a 506 C fund, providing capital to tax deed investors. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Brian Seidensticker about Delinquent Tax Investing.
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BIGGEST RISK with Brian Seidensticker
06/24/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Brian Seidensticker
J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, Brian Seidensticker, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Brian Seidensticker I guess, you know, as far as buying tax deeds or the fund itself, it's for you to to, for me to interpret. Well, I think it's, it's from a tax, just tax sale properties, taxes and taxes in general, the biggest risk is the underlying property value, right? That That alone addresses the you know, is this, is this lien going to am I going to be able to make a return on this lien or this deed at the end of the day, or not? And that that is your number one risk? Right is, is assuming that you can, can make sure that your underwriting process addresses that right, and that you can't eliminate it, because things can happen right? I've certainly seen and been and been involved in a property that was purchased and then, for whatever reason, gets demoed, or, you know, has a fire break out, or whatever, what you thought that property value was right is no longer there, right? And so, you know, either your model has to address that loss, right, or you have to, you know, accommodate for that loss in value. And so, you know, for example, tax lien folks try to ensure that okay, the loss in value from things that could happen like that, ultimately, still, you know, if I'm willing to that property less than 5% a lot of things can happen and you're still okay. Right? In the worst case scenario, on the tax deed side, it's not that easy, right? A lot of things can happen, and all of a sudden you thought you're in a great position, and all of a sudden you're upside down. But managing that asset value, underlying asset value, is the number one risk by far.
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Self-Directed IRA Note Investing with Eddie Speed - CRE PN #508
06/19/2025
Self-Directed IRA Note Investing with Eddie Speed - CRE PN #508
Today, my guest is Eddie speed. Eddie speed is the founder of Note School, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Eddie speed about opportunities in private, note investing.
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BIGGEST RISK with Eddie Speed
06/17/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Eddie Speed
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Eddie Speed, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Eddie Speed Losing my money and losing my money means that I bought a note and I don't get enough recovery to go pay off my investment and still make a yield. So that could be that that could relate to non performing notes. Performing notes, it does everything down the line. It's like at the end of the day. That is why I like buying first mortgages with a cushion between what the collateral is worth and what I invested in the note. And that's the simplest form to say at the end of the day. That's my safety net, that cushion between what the collateral is worth and what my investment is in that note.
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Return to Office Trends on Hospitality with Sundip Patel - CRE PN #507
06/12/2025
Return to Office Trends on Hospitality with Sundip Patel - CRE PN #507
Today, my guest is Sandeep. Patel Sundeep is the CEO and co founder of companies, an asset management and fintech firm that specializes in commercial real estate, private credit, lending and investing. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Sundip about the impact of return to Office trends on the hospitality industry.
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BIGGEST RISK with Sundip Patel
06/10/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Sundip Patel
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you Sundip Patel, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Sundip Patel That's a great question. Darrin, by the way, so the biggest risk that I foresee, and in our business, is the underestimating of the impact of AI and to our business and everything we do, from assessing risk, evaluating risk, to, you know, funding that risk, the entire process. So we as a company have taken some bold steps to get ahead, to understand how we can apply AI and what it will mean. As as you remember when we started the conversation, my mission was to create jobs and maintain jobs. I live with that fear today, because you're asking me, what's the biggest risk? This is the risk that keeps me awake in the middle of the night when I think that I'm underestimating the true impact of AI that's coming really fast upon us and the sweeping impact it will have across all businesses, not just mine, but even others. And right now, I'm focused on making sure mine and my employees are upskilled and ready and changing fast so we can do more with less, but at least be ahead.
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AI in Real Estate with David Blumenfeld - CRE PN #506
06/05/2025
AI in Real Estate with David Blumenfeld - CRE PN #506
Today, my guest is David Blumenfeld. David is the co founder of , a Silicon Valley based consultancy dedicated to assisting traditional physical businesses and leveraging digital technologies. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with David Blumenfeld about how AI is transforming real estate.
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BIGGEST RISK with David Blumenfeld
06/03/2025
BIGGEST RISK with David Blumenfeld
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. David Blumenfeld, what is the BIGGEST RISK? David Blumenfeld We're going to answer it a couple different ways, if that's okay. So I think I mean, and this, this first one might, might seem like a self serving answer, but I think the risk for real estate companies in general for not looking at technology. And again, it doesn't have to be the biggest, you know, the biggest, the newest, the the flashiest, but if you're not incorporating technology into your your your day to day operations, whether it be from a marketing perspective, a company, a leasing perspective, Building Management, etc, you are getting left behind and and the good news for you is that the real estate industry moves slow, but as it gets more and more competitive from insert certainly In certain asset classes, office being one of them to not be investing in kind of future proofing your building and your company is going to come back and bite you in the long term and so and both from a just an operational perspective, but also eventually, eventually from a recruiting perspective, where people who are going to you're going to want In your company are not going to want to work. Want to work at your company if you're not forward thinking. From a tech perspective, I think the biggest concern right now, excitement and concern certainly is with AI and things like conversational AI, like chat GPT, we have, we have clients who their legal departments come in and we can't use AI at all. And I think the concern, the practical concern there is, there is a risk of, if you're using kind of a, you know, chat GPT, or Microsoft co pilot, one of these, or Google Gemini, is it, depending on the information you're putting in to have, let's say you're like, I want to put, you know, I use it a lot for writing better copy, maybe of writing a better email than I wrote already, because I realized I'm just not saying that quite right. But you know, there's it's much more powerful than that. You can put in financial data, for example, that would spit back a spreadsheet for you, or different analysis that might you know normally take hours on in Excel. There is risk when you start to upload proprietary information from a financial perspective, but the but you need to kind of balance that risk with what you're what you're using those tools for, because they are very powerful and very efficient as well. So I think it's making sure you don't swing the pendulum one way or the other, like you need to certainly use AI in your business. But I think if you're going to start to do a lot of things through AI, you know, there are ways to protect the information that you're you're putting out there, and you don't have to just throw something in chat GPT. You can have an application that's specific to your company, that leverages AI, but may be able to spit out kind of your your own private version of chat GPT, so to speak. So you just need to be, you just need to understand the implications and the risks of of if you're using kind of a generic service, you know, be, you know, there is a risk that you're putting that data, not it's not necessarily means that those companies are going to use it against you, but you are uploading that information into into the cloud. And I think it's funny, you've seen a lot in America around like, Oh, we're going to ban Tiktok because we're worried about China, you know, stealing all this data. Well, China's come out with a lot of new AI platforms. Lately, nobody's talking about the data privacy implications. Like, I would be much more concerned about using, putting anything in a in a Chinese AI software platform versus, you know, my social media via Tiktok. So it's, it's just funny how people are not thinking about things holistically. And I think that's, that's just what you need to make sure you need to do. But again, as I said in my earlier very common beginning of, you know, the beginning of the conversation, don't get into analysis paralysis, where you justify doing nothing because you have to overthink it over and over again.
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Real Estate Trends with Simon Isaacs - CRE PN #505
05/29/2025
Real Estate Trends with Simon Isaacs - CRE PN #505
Today, my guest is Simon Isaacs. In 2015 Simon moved his family from London to West Palm Beach, Florida, where he became more involved in the local real estate market after seeing an opportunity, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Simon Isaacs about the real estate market trends.
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BIGGEST RISK with Simon Isaacs
05/27/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Simon Isaacs
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Simon Isaacs, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Simon Isaacs Wow, I would say the biggest risk here. Big Question, the big question. Demand. I. Demand is the biggest risk here. You know, demand for properties, demand, if you know you only need one event, one weather event, and everybody ends up leaving. So I would say demand and weather are the biggest risk in my book, yeah, clearly, in Florida, you're, you're one, you know, one, one major weather event, or something like that from, you know, sour people souring on the on the place, or at least, and it doesn't even need to be a major weather event. It just has to be enough that people are concerned and they don't want to deal with it, right? And let me ask you this, do you feel that that's a a local attitude, or do you think it's more of a public perception that gets promoted, you know, news, etc, after an event, public perception, you know, we end up, you know, whether it's the tornadoes, the winds, etc, it stays on the news, which obviously we want to be alerted, you know, you want the warnings and things like that. But, um, the news definitely makes it drag out a little bit longer. But it is a serious it's a serious event, you know. And the tornadoes were an eye opener last year, because everybody thinks it's hurricanes and flooding, but that's not the case. So it's that public perception is, you know,
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Retail Strip Mall Investment Opportunities with David Codrea - CRE PN #504
05/22/2025
Retail Strip Mall Investment Opportunities with David Codrea - CRE PN #504
David Codrea, co-founder of Greenleaf Capital Partners, discussed the hidden opportunities in small strip malls near new construction developments. He emphasized the importance of long-term cash flow and the resilience of retail despite negative perceptions. Codrea highlighted his investment strategy, focusing on retail and office spaces, and his preference for smaller, local service-oriented businesses. He noted typical investment sizes of $2-4 million and a preference for 3-5 year leases. Codrea also stressed the importance of efficient operations, quick tenant turnover, and the role of time as a critical risk factor in his business.
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BIGGEST RISK with David Codrea
05/20/2025
BIGGEST RISK with David Codrea
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. David Codrea, what is the BIGGEST RISK? David Codrea For me, what I see as the biggest risk that impacts my business the most is time. So it looks at it, there's a huge benefit to time, but there's also a huge risk if you are not able to get the ball moving on things so extended vacancy or or even just time to make a decision if it takes too long for your organization to get things through, to make, get, get approval for something, or make a decision on what you're going to do with this tenant or that tenant. I think that that can lead to a lot of risk. Because one, you've got an organization that doesn't really know, like, hey, which? How are we making a decision? When? When are we going to make the decision? And no one knows you have, you know, opportunities that can be missed because of inability to move. And I think we've, if you look at business as a whole, a lot of times, really, really big companies. These look like the 10 biggest companies that are out there. It used to be that big companies would get slower, and now the more the shift is, some of these big organizations are just getting faster and faster and faster. If you look at Amazon, they're they've just been pushing to go faster. It used to be you get something delivered in a couple days, and then it became next day. And now it's like, Hey, can we do the same day? Like they're getting faster. I think they're realizing that time is time is the biggest risk that they have to for them to lose a customer in my business, you know, I'm not Amazon, but if we don't get back to people, we're going to lose them. You know that that mentality is shifting through to everyone. Everyone Everyone wants everything right now. So if you don't have a way to do things faster and avoid that loss of time, that's the biggest risk that's out there. And probably for any business.
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Wealth Accumulation through Real Estate Investment with Joel Miller - CRE PN #503
05/15/2025
Wealth Accumulation through Real Estate Investment with Joel Miller - CRE PN #503
Today, my guest is Joel Miller. Joel Miller is the author of the best selling book, Build Real Estate Wealth. Enjoy the Journey of Rental Property Investment, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Joel Miller about the Journey to Real Estate Wealth.
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BIGGEST RISK with Joel Miller
05/13/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Joel Miller
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Joel Miller, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Joel Miller Well, I'm going to surprise you with the answer, but it's going to be two pronged here. From a financial standpoint, I will say that rental property can be a source for risk, which is why you typically should form an entity that you hold your properties in that protects your personal assets from things that might happen within your entity related to those properties. And on top of that, you know, I do recommend carrying replacement costs insurance on your properties and. A commercial liability insurance. You know, on top of that, to pick up where the liability coverage on your your underlying insurance is. So that's my financial part of that answer. But the other prong I want to talk about is relationships. The risk is in losing relationships. You know, I am well known when I'm talking to like teaching the landlord one on one classes and masterminds and stuff like that. I am known for saying this thing, that if I had a choice of losing all my money or losing all my relationships, I would lose all my money in a heartbeat, because my relationships will help me get my money back. And if I have no relationships and a pile of money, what good is that? You know that that's failure. You know, as far as I'm concerned, so it's important to build and maintain relationships that are sometimes lifelong and sometimes might be for one project or something like that, because those are the people that are going to get you from point A to point B, and you've got to be that person to somebody else as well. You know it goes both ways, and so what I say is, don't make a withdrawal from a good relationship just to make a deposit in your bank account.
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Disaster Preparedness Risk Management with Creek Stewart - CRE PN #502
05/08/2025
Disaster Preparedness Risk Management with Creek Stewart - CRE PN #502
Today my guest is Creek Stewart. Creek is an expert survival instructor and author of survival hacks and the best selling Build the Perfect Bug Out Series has been featured on The Weather Channel. The Today Show, Fox and Friends are just a couple places where Creek's been featured, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Creek about get down to this Mastering the Art of Preparedness.
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BIGGEST RISK with Creek Stewart
05/06/2025
BIGGEST RISK with Creek Stewart
J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you Creek Stewart, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Creek Stewart That's a great question, and I think most people would probably expect me to say that it's being lost in the woods or being struck by a natural disaster. But I guess I'm going to get real personal on this one I me personally being a wilderness survival instructor and a preparedness consultant. I see all of the bad things and think about all of the bad things and think about all the scenarios, right? And it's really easy for me to get caught up, just too much in all of the things of this world. And so I think my biggest risk is thinking that they, that they, I don't know, giving, giving them too much value, versus the things that are eternal, right? The things that last forever our life and these little natural disasters that happen, even though I'm in this business and even though I sell books on the subjects, they're just little tiny blips in this lifetime of eternity. And so for me personally, it would be to consume myself with the thoughts of the temporary things versus the eternal things. And I'm going to quote scripture on you. I always, I always think about this verse from Colossians, you know, set your mind on the things above and not on the things of this earth. And so my strategy for navigating that is to take time each day and try to spend time in solitude and prayer and reading scripture, and, you know, try to dig in a little bit deeper to the eternal side of things, so that I just don't focus so much on the negativity and the temporary.
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